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usura

See also: ușura

Galician edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Noun edit

usura f (plural usuras)

  1. usury

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /uˈzu.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: u‧sù‧ra

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin ūsūra (“use; enjoyment”), derived from ūsus, perfect passive participle of ūtor (“to use; to enjoy”).

Noun edit

usura f (plural usure)

  1. (obsolete, finance) interest (price of credit)
    Synonym: interesse
  2. (obsolete, finance) usury (practice of lending money at interest)
  3. usury (exorbitant rate of interest in excess of any legal rates)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • usura1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from French usure, derived from user (“to use”).

Noun edit

usura f (plural usure)

  1. wear (damage caused by use over time)
  2. (figurative) deterioration
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • usura2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

usura

  1. inflection of usurare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From ūtor.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension

  1. use, enjoyment
  2. interest (on a loan)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ūsūra ūsūrae
Genitive ūsūrae ūsūrārum
Dative ūsūrae ūsūrīs
Accusative ūsūram ūsūrās
Ablative ūsūrā ūsūrīs
Vocative ūsūra ūsūrae

Descendants edit

  • English: usury
  • French: usure
  • Italian: usura
  • Portuguese: usura
  • Spanish: usura
  • Serbo-Croatian: ušur

References edit

  • “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • usura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
    • interest at 1 per cent per month, 12 per cent per annum: centesimae (sc. usurae) (Att. 5. 21. 11)
    • 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
    • 6 per cent: usurae semisses (Jurists)
    • 3 per cent (a quarter of centesima): quadrantes usurae
    • 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
    • 5 per cent: quincunces usurae
    • monthly interest: usura menstrua
  • “usura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Piedmontese edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

usura f (plural usure)

  1. usury

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

Noun edit

usura f (plural usuras)

  1. usury (exorbitant rate of interest)
  2. (uncountable) usury (practice of lending money at exorbitant rates)
    Synonym: agiotagem
  3. any exploitative transaction

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

usura

  1. inflection of usurar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading edit

  • “usura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈsu.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: u‧su‧ra

Noun edit

usura f (plural usuras)

  1. usury

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

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